Computer Organization Questions and Answers – VLIW Architecture (I-64)

This set of Computer Organization and Architecture Multiple Choice Questions & Answers (MCQs) focuses on “VLIW Architecture (I-64)”.

1. VLIW stands for?
a) Very Long Instruction Word
b) Very Long Instruction Width
c) Very Large Instruction Word
d) Very Long Instruction Width
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2. The important feature of the VLIW is _______
a) ILP
b) Cost effectiveness
c) Performance
d) None of the mentioned
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3. The main difference between the VLIW and the other approaches to improve performance is ___________
a) Cost effectiveness
b) Increase in performance
c) Lack of complex hardware design
d) All of the mentioned
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4. In VLIW the decision for the order of execution of the instructions depends on the program itself.
a) True
b) False
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5. The parallel execution of operations in VLIW is done according to the schedule determined by __________
a) Task scheduler
b) Interpreter
c) Compiler
d) Encoder
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6. The VLIW processors are much simpler as they do not require of _________
a) Computational register
b) Complex logic circuits
c) SSD slots
d) Scheduling hardware
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7. The VLIW architecture follows _____ approach to achieve parallelism.
a) MISD
b) SISD
c) SIMD
d) MIMD
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8. The following instruction is allowed in VLIW:

f12 = f0 * f4, f8 = f8 + f12, f0 = dm(i0, m3), f4 = pm(i8, m9);

a) True
b) False
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9. To compute the direction of the branch the VLIW uses _____________
a) Seekers
b) Heuristics
c) Direction counter
d) Compass
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10. EPIC stands for?
a) Explicitly Parallel Instruction Computing
b) External Peripheral Integrating Component
c) External Parallel Instruction Computing
d) None of the mentioned
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